Shambhala Halifax BannerHalifax Shambhala Centre • Volume XXIX Issue 1 • Jan-Mar 2016

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CONTENTS2

Director‘s Report

3At the Centre

9Community News

14At Other Locations

15Staff Directory

submission deadline for next issue: March 1st

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CHILDREN’S CRAFT WORKSHOP

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DIRECTOR’S REPORTby Michelle Munro

DIRECTOR’S REPORT

Sitting down to write this on this cold rainy December day, I can’t help but feel warm inside thinking about this community. I am inspired by the bravery I see by remarkable individuals. I am inspired to share a poem with you, written by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche in 2011.

On the note of basic goodness and bravery, we are excitedly awaiting the Sakyong’s program the 22nd-23rd of Janurary on Shambhala Meditation. I hope those of you who are curious about Shambhala, or just beginning your path of meditation will come! There is nothing like sitting in a room with Rinpoche and seeing his smile and hearing him teach about basic goodness to inspire you to go deep and explore the principle of basic worthiness in your own life.

Our remediation work is nearly complete, it’s just a matter of days before we have our front entrance back! Everything will be freshly painted and clean. In this process we’ve learned a lot. For one, how much we take our front entrance for granted! As much as our reception area needs improvements, we sure miss it when it’s not useable.

A Song For the Brave

In the sky of the mind, the song of truth is a gentle breeze—Refreshing, sweet, caressing, and good.Having now received this basic human truth,Cherish it like an ember of delight in this dark world of doubt.When you feel scared, be gentle and don’t panic.Wait a moment, touch your heart,Feel vulnerable and strong—and then relax.When you find yourself at the crossroads of genuineness and deception,Be brave.Proclaim your basic goodness, and do not forget that you are human.Realize that the power of goodness is your birthright.When you feel humble and confident,You can kiss the sky and smile,For this is the gift of humanity.

Written for the Sangha Retreat, Dechen Chöling, 2011.

I want to thank each of you for the amazing amount of support you showed at the community meeting this past November. Your presence there and the kind notes afterwards have been inspiring. Just a reminder if you want to read the Strategic Plan that’s been submitted to the Kalapa Council or listen to my presentation of the report it can be found in the “Members Resource” section of our website here: http://halifax.shambhala.org/community/member-resources/

Our Marketing and Communications Manager Alex Meade is moving on. Alex’s contract was up the end of December and he is looking to explore new avenues of employment. Alex’s presence has been a delightful addition to the staff here at the Shambhala Center. He has a great sense of humor, is always ready to jump in and lend a hand in other areas, and is just an all around amazingly decent person. We will miss him, but wish him all the best on his quest and hope he visits often!

I thank you all for your continued support. Your kind words, your practice, your time and energy, your money, your inspiration-so many forms of generosity make the activities of the Shambhala Center possible.

With a deep bow,Michelle

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Please join the Sakyong and Acharya McLellan to explore and connect with our own humanity. Proclaiming Basic Goodness through the Shambhala Meditation practice can be a powerful antidote to the aggression and suffering of our times.

In this weekend program, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche will offer the transmission for Shambhala Meditation, an intimate practice that is both simple and profound. Through Shambhala Meditation, we learn to embody wisdom and compassion, bearing witness to the display of worldly phenomena while tuning into our open hearts.

Acharya Noel McLellan says the following about Shambhala Meditation practice:

Shambhala Meditation is a practice introduced by the holder of the Shambhala lineage, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. It is a practice for both brand new meditators as well as seasoned yogis. Both simple and incredibly deep, it combines the virtues of freshness with the wealth of tradition. While it is accessible and easy to learn, the senior practitioner will also recognize it as a transmission of the highest wisdom.

At its heart, Shambhala Meditation is a means of rediscovering the goodness of being human. Rather than inviting us to embark on a mysterious journey to a place of higher awareness, it is a practice of embodying who and what we are now. Since we are already human, the journey is one of learning to trust and be. Shambhala Meditation begins with our experience—whatever it may be, however we may feel—as the expression of our full humanity. So if it’s possible to do the practice wrong, no one has found it yet!

This practice is a hot ember from the hearth of Shambhala wisdom. Receiving the instruction from Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche is a gift, an opportunity to warm our hearts and melt the ice of fear and doubt in our lives.

PROCLAIMING BASIC GOODNESSWITH SAKYONG MIPHAM RINPOCHE & ACHARYA NOEL MCLELLANJAN 22-23, 2016, HALIFAX SHAMBHALA CENTRE

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CATCHING UP WITH OUR STUDENTS: Talks from the Boulder P&E Conference

Dear Teachers, Meditation Instructors, Assistant Directors and Shambhala Guides,

On Sunday, January 17th, we will be offering a replay of a portion of the recordings from the Shambhala Practice and Education Conference “Catching Up to Our Students. This conference was held in Boulder and offered live on Shambhala OnLine in September. A description of the conference and topics is included below. These recordings are also available for viewing through Shambhala OnLine.

The schedule for the Sunday, January 17th is as follows:

8:30 coffee/tea

9-1230 P&E Conf Recording Replay and Discussion

1230-2 PM Lunch

2 PM - 530 P&E Conf Recording Replay and Discussion

Warmly,

Jeff Scott, Mary Campbell, Tom Bell

Shambhala P&E Conference ~ Catching Up to Our Students

Offered live from the Boulder Shambhala Center on September 11-13, 2015

In order to better serve our students, and before we enter another academic year of Shambhala programs, teachers in Shambhala are invited to review the recent changes to instruction and the Shambhala path. There will be presentations from Acharya Dale Asrael, Acharya Judith Simmer-Brown, Acharya Adam Lobel and the new Shambhala Director of the Office of Practice and Education, Mr. Charlie Goetzl. Shastris Holly Gayley, Janet Solyntjes, and Andrew Sacamano will offer presentations as well.

For those who are not able to attend in person, Shambhala Online is making the program available for remote participation. Recordings of this program are available to view on your own schedule.

Context

During the last five years, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche has introduced a great many new texts, and has adjusted the Shambhala curriculum in several ways. The students attending Enlightened Society Assembly, Warrior’s Assembly, Sacred World Assembly, Shambhala Guide Training, and Scorpion Seal Assemblies are all benefiting from the new depth and richness of these programs.

For the teachers, meditation instructors and guides in local centers, it is a challenge to catch up to our students, as we likely have not attended all of these newer programs and our students often receive these new teachings before we do. When does one receive a Shambhala name? What has changed with Warrior’s Assembly? What texts do students receive at Sacred World Assembly? Even on the local level, how has Shambhala Meditation influenced our initial meditation instruction? What are the four phases of meditation training? What is the current order of the Shambhala path?

The intention of this conference is not simply to answer these questions, but to provide an opportunity for us to come together and better understand from each other the entirety of the Shambhala path and how it is being presented. We will have an opportunity to deepen our personal understanding of the teachings, and become more up-to-date with how new students are being trained. And when our students come back from these programs, we can better serve them.

Preparation

Please study and review Shambhala Meditation by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

Open to all Shambhala teachers, meditation instructors, assistant directors, and guides. Practice and Education directors or coordinators are also invited.

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WEEKDAY MEDITATIONMon. to Sat. 7–8:15am

(All are welcome to stay at 8am for the daily morning chants, 10-15min or so.)

Mon. to Fri.: 9–10am, 5–6 pm (All are welcome to stay at 8am for the daily morning chants, 10-15min or so.)

We always welcome trained Guides, ADs and MIs, as well as meditators with a solid experience of meditation, to be umdze (timekeeper). If you are inspired to contribute to the community of meditators, please contact Robert Halpern for details: halpernrobert@hotmail.com or 902-405-2697.

Free of charge. Your generosity is what makes this possible.

SUNDAY MEDITATIONSundays, 9am–noon

Sunday morning practice is a golden opportunity to practice meditation in a strong container with a range of newer and more experienced practitioners, and it is a great place to meet with your meditation instructor. Free of charge. Donations welcomed!

The second Sunday of every month includes Maitri bhavana, a meditation practice to benefit the seriously ill, that will take place every second Sunday—Names and illnesses of friends and relatives may be written on the sheet posted in the Main Shrine Room.

Open to people of any spiritual tradition, the Way of Shambhala is designed for the modern world and is suitable for both beginning and experienced meditators alike. It provides a strong foundation in mindfulness-awareness meditation, wisdom teachings, contemplative arts and physical disciplines rooted in the ancient traditions of Shambhala and Tibetan Buddhism.

The Way of Shambhala consists of a series of classes and weekend programs and explores the Shambhala vision of basic goodness

and enlightened society. The practice of meditation is presented as a means to cultivate fearlessness, confidence, openness, and gentleness toward ourselves, each other and our world.

The courses are interactive and communal, and create a learning environment where the teachings are intimate and relevant. Participants train in meditation, and use inquiry, dialogue and contemplative arts to integrate the teachings.

Please view the Way of Shambhala section of our website for the current 2016 schedule.

Questions and offers to serve as staff can be directed to Genea Teskey, Way of Shambhala Program Manager, at 902-420-1118 x134, or at wos.shambhala@shambhala.org

WAY OF SHAMBHALA

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Through the practice of meditation, we glimpse unconditional goodness as the ground of our existence. Opening to ourselves with gentleness and appreciation, we begin to see our potential as genuine and compassionate human beings.

Open to everyone! No prerequisites!

SHAMBHALA TRAINING LEVEL I WEEKEND RETREATMarch 4th - 5th

Contentment in Everyday Life is a 5-week course offering an experiential training in contentment, as well as an exploration of the obstacles or challenges to experiencing simplicity, gentleness and mindfulness in everyday life. The course responds with practical suggestions to the question “How can I bring the contentment of meditation into my everyday life?”

CONTENTMENT IN EVERYDAY LIFEJanuary 21st - February 18th

In Shambhala Training Level III: Warrior in the World we work in a deliberate way. We make an effort to bring the mindfulness and awareness cultivated during our meditation practice into all aspects of our daily life. When we become awake to our sense perceptions, we can venture into the world with confidence and vulnerability that is fearless, gentle, and alive.

Prerequisite: Shambhala Training Level II

SHAMBHALA TRAINING LEVEL III WEEKEND RETREATJanuary 22nd - 24th

In Level II we begin to work with the obstacles that arise as meditation practice develops. We explore how habitual ways of thinking and experiencing obscure the raw brilliance of the world we live in as well as our own genuineness and tenderness. Meditation practice allows us to observe how we create a cocoon of habits to mask underlying fear.

Prerequisite: Shambhala Training Level I

SHAMBHALA TRAINING LEVEL II WEEKEND RETREATFebruary 26th - 28th

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UPCOMING PROGRAMS AND EVENTS

Jan 12th: Locating Shambhala: A Conversation Exploring Architecture and Sacred Space in Shambhala

Jan 22-23: Shambhala Meditation: Proclaiming Basic Goodness with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Jan 24th: Shambhala Meditation Training for Shambhala Educators with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Jan 29-Feb 7: Mamo Chants

Feb 9th: Shambhala Day

Feb 21st: Milarepa Day

Feb 22-28: Chakrasamvara Drupchen

Mar 11-12: Desung Training

Mar 18-20: Hooked Obsessed and Addicted--Working with Habitual Patterns Through Mindfulness

AT THE CENTRE

IThis third and final course of the Basic Goodness Series asks the question, “What is real?” and explores various approaches to it. How do we know what is real? How might we begin to ask this question in a way that is meaningful for our everyday lives? In this course, we will present a number of views from the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, including interdependence, exploring the display of reality, the role of mind in perception, and the teachings on emptiness and sacredness.

Prerequisite: Who Am I? The Basic Goodness of Being Human; How Can I Help? The Basic Goodness of Society; and at least Shambhala Training Level I Weekend Retreat.

WHAT IS REAL? THE BASIC GOODNESS OF REALITYMarch 21st - April 25th

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CHILDREN’S CRAFT WORKSHOPAnother year, another successful edition of the ever popular Children’s Craft Workshop. Parents and grand parents brought their little ones to the centre for an afternoon of craft making and festive socializing on Dec 13th. Children made king and queen dolls, origami, crowns, fans, and most importantly new friends, as they tried their hands at these fun crafts. Huge thanks to all the volunteers and the event organizer, Lisa Tay.

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GARDENING GOODNESS: Growing Even With Winter Comingby David Wimberly

The Gardening Goodness Project has had a fine time harvesting and sharing the bounty of the rich soil of Shambhala as well as preparing for winter and spring. A highlight was the Potato Harvest Hootenanny where hardy folks delighted in competing to see who could dig the most, the largest, and the smallest potatoes. Our plot was small but the diggers and digging were mighty. Out of just a 24 sq. foot plot we got 25 lbs! Congratulations to winners Jesse Henderson-Wallace (most, and also smallest), Judith Ferris (2nd most), and Pam Cooley (largest).

We gave away over 30 squash. We exchanged cookbooks. We planted garlic. We composted. We mulched. We munched. Petra Mudie showed us how easy and important it is to save seeds of our favorite Heritage tomatoes. Petra also graciously provided the bounty of goodies and juice we snacked on and was key to organizing the day. Thank you Petra for this and for the years of dedication and generosity you have given to the gardening at the Shambhala Centre!

And we built a second Mini Hoop Tunnel. Or first Mini Hoop Tunnel from last year survived the terrible winter with flying colors. Every plant in it survived to spring including many that just would not have made it even in an ordinary Nova Scotia winter. Being on the edge of a parking lot, so much snow was plowed onto it that for months it was under as much as 2 feet above its top. A bit like an igloo, it seemed. Protection from strong, drying winter winds is an important benefit that allows cold tolerant green vegetables to survive and grow where there is just barely enough sun. Our design improves on most by the addition of a top brace of ½ x 2” wood, and also the same to open and hold close the plastic sheet along the sides.

Going forward into next year, the Gardening Goodness Project would love to have you join us in our gardening. We anticipate a movie night, cooking classes, and planning next year’s gardening with you. So please get in contact with us to share energy and aspirations. Be a part of the Gardening Goodness!

Photo by Charles Blackhall, themindfuleye.org

p. 10Photo by Charles Blackhall, themindfuleye.org

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NERD CORNER: BUDDHISM AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHYby Robert Alan Paul

There is a long history of interaction between Western philosophy and Buddhism. The Silk Road facilitated this from ancient times, yet the first major documented interaction with lasting repercussions came with Alexander’s attempt to conquer Bactria near what is now Eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan. He died (323 BCE), and his successors were defeated by Chandragupta, the first emperor of the Indian Maurya Dynasty. Chandragupta converted to Jainism and Ashoka—the third Maurya emperor—converted to Buddhism, facilitating its spread throughout India. The Greeks that came with Alexander settled the entire region and founded first the Greco-Bactrian and then the Indo-Greek Kingdoms during the Hellenistic period from Alexander to the first century CE.

It is hard to document what elements of Greek philosophy influenced Buddhism and how Buddhism influenced Greek and Roman philosophy in the following centuries. For example, since explicit images of the Buddha in human form were not found in India until the 1st or 2nd centuries BCE, it has been proposed that they were due to Greek influence. Similarly, the concept of zero was not explicitly represented in numbers in India until around 500 CE, yet the

concept was represented around 200 BCE using the Sanskrit word śūnya. However, Zeno in the 5th century BCE examined the concept in his famous paradoxes: ‘How can nothing be something?’; and ‘The arrow never moves since at any one moment it is in only one location, and its full flight would be merely the sum of all its moments.’ Did Nāgārjuna formalize Madhyamaka inspired by the interaction between Buddhism and Greek philosophy?

Greek culture and philosophy followed Alexander, who was a student of Aristotle. Pyrrho and several other philosophers came with Alexander, stayed in India for 18 months, and conversed with various Indian philosophers and religious figures. Pyrrho returned to Greece and founded the school known now as Pyrrhonian skepticism, documented by Sextus Empiricus. Pyrrhonian skepticism includes questioning whether the senses provide knowledge, whether any knowledge is possible altogether, and how reason is influenced by desire. These Greco-Roman-Indian philosophies were developed by Arabs during the European middle ages and rediscovered in Europe during the Renaissance in the 14th – 16th centuries. They strongly influenced development of empiricism—one of the two major streams of early modern Western philosophy in the 18th centuries at the hands of John Locke in England, David Hume in Scotland and Immanuel Kant in Germany. The other stream of early modern philosophy is idealism, similar to Cittamatra, mind-only Buddhist philosophy.

Empiricism is the idea that our knowledge must be based either

entirely or at least foundationally on what is observed directly by our senses, yet we question whether our senses fool us. Descartes initiated modern Western philosophy by asking how we could determine whether we were dreaming, deceived by an evil demon, or in modern terms whether we are in The Matrix. Empiricism evolved into philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th centuries as a view that science must be based on sense observations, while we must be quite skeptical about what was called metaphysical speculation. The latter was determined to be anathema to science. The question remains how to balance theoretical concepts referring to things that we infer to exist in the world with direct observations of the world, and what ‘direct’ entails in this description. This question is as much of interest to Western philosophers, scientists and Buddhists.

The links between Buddhist and Western thought beginning in ancient times is difficult to document, since there are so many gaps, branches, influences, and evolutions. It is easier, however, to document how Hindu and Buddhist thought came into Europe in the late 18th and 19th centuries and where it went thereafter. Sir William Jones was a royal pain in the butt to the court of King George III due to his opposition to Britain’s conduct of the war with colonial America. He was shipped off to India 1783 as a judge in the British Raj that ruled there, which is where he wanted to go anyway. He began The Asiatic Society from like-minded Indiophiles, and with his successors proceeded to send back 15 large volumes of Indian ethnography, philosophy, literature,

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music, geography, etc. over the next 25 years. One of the society members reported on his trip to Tibet where he had his mind blown by the genuine presence of a 5 year old tulku.

These volumes were well received in Great Britain, and became popular objects of parlor discussions among the educated elite. They were also nearly immediately translated into

German and devoured by several German Idealist philosophers, including Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer is explicit in how basic Buddhist ideas of the noble truths, prajnaparamita Mahayana Buddhism and śūnyatā influenced his thinking. Schopenhauer was very influential himself, through Nietsche (who in my estimation formed his philosophy largely from a misunderstanding of

Schopenhauer’s references to śūnyatā) and to Kierkegaard and all of existentialism, which has serious similarities to some Buddhist thinking. Existentialism was and is a major ingredient of Western popular culture in 20th and 21st century.

Next issue I will talk about the more recent interactions between science and Buddhism.

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DEATH MATTERS:DEATH IS REAL. IT COMES WITHOUT WARNING.by Deborah Luscomb

On November 22nd, I returned from five weeks at Sopa Choling where I had the good fortune to practice Vajrakilaya with a small group of sangha…. to a text message from my sister letting me know that her first born, my nephew, Andrew MacLean, had just died in a car accident – on his 37th birthday.

Andrew’s was the first birth I attended…. and a significant reason for my subsequent years as a midwife. But his death was not supposed to happen before mine.

As you can imagine, I immediately flew to Boulder to be with my sister… and the rest of the family. Because the crematorium was closed on Thanksgiving, we were able to spend an extra day with Andrew’s corpse. But it did not compute. That cold, lifeless body… and the vibrant, kind, generous, skilled, and troubled young man… did not seem to connect. What happened? Where did Andrew go? How can we live without his smile?

I have found no conceptual framework to explain this seemingly extraordinary… but very ordinary event. My mind stops. The grief is overwhelming, unexplainable, uncontrollable, and unending. The pain of loss of a loved one does not ever go away. Perhaps one becomes accustomed to it… and relearns how to function in the world.

And I am not even his mother!

My gratitude for sangha friends is immeasurable. We have the constant responsibility to remind each other of the illusory nature of joy and sorrow, of pleasure and pain, of life and death. And to care for each other with unbearable compassion.

The Death Café meets the first Thursday of each month at 3:30 at the Trident Café on Hollis Street in Halifax. The next gathering is January 7th.

Watch for the next Death Matters workshop in January, and One Year to Live beginning just after Shambhala Day.

For more information, please contact Deborah Luscomb, dfluscomb@gmail.com, 902.403.7590.

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DARTMOUTH SHAMBHALA MEDITATION GROUP

ST. MARGARETS BAY SHAMBHALA CENTRE13495 Peggy’s Cove Road, Upper Tantallonbay.shambhala.org • smbsc@chebucto.ns.ca

Ongoing/open to all:Meditation Plus!Wednesdays 7pm – 9pm.Meditation practice plus tea, a short talk andDiscussion. Meditation Instruction at 7pm.

Supper at Shambhala 1st Wed of each month(serving from 5:45 – 6:45 pm)Soup plus pot luck and donations.Bring family, friends and neighbours.

Community Meditation PracticeSundays 9:30am – noon

Contact Bruce at 876-8880 or bruce.wauchope@nspower.ca

The Dartmouth Shambhala Meditation group has moved! Our Tuesday night practice and programs, as well as our monthly Half-Nyinthun and community potluck (the third Sunday of each month, 9 am to 1pm) are now taking place in our beautiful new space in the MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning, located at 50 Queen St. in downtown Dartmouth. Plenty of parking is available on Queen St, and other streets nearby. We invite you to visit www.dartmouth.shambhala.org for details about our upcoming programs, and to join us as we practice, grow and celebrate as a community in our delightful new home.

info@dartmouth-shambhala.ca www.dartmouth.shambhala.org

Join us on the 3rd Sunday of every month for A Taste of Meditation Half-Nyinthun and Community Potluck.

9am- 10:45am – sitting for experienced practitioners 10:45am -11am – Tea. 11am-12pm – Meditation Instruction available for new practitioners. 12pm-1pm – Community Potluck – contributions welcome but not

necessary, families welcome!

Tuesday evening Open House and Meditation Every Tuesday, 7-9pm. Everyone is welcome! Sitting meditation 7 - 7:50 pm - Tea Discussion/ Talk/Program 8 - 9pm Meditation instruction available.

Suggested donation $7 per evening. Cost should not be a factor in any program, please pay what you can if this is a concern.

Tuesdays 7-9:15 pm, we welcome anyone interested in learning how to meditate or already have a regular practice to join us for meditation, tea social, followed by a talk or discussion on topics of Shambhala Buddhism and applications of meditation in daily life.

http://dartmouth.shambhala.org.

Continuing throughout the year we offer diverse programs and special practice and study events offered by visiting teachers. See our calendar page for what is happening:

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STAFF DIRECTORY

Executive DirectorMichelle Munrohscdirector15@gmail.com x 130

Director of Path and CultureJeff Scottpathandculture@gmail.com x 131

FinanceBob Hasteybhastey@shambhala.org x 113

Way of Shambhala Program ManagerGenea Teskeywayofshambhala@shambhala.org x 134

Communications and Marketinghsc.marketing.communications@gmail.com x 120

Assistant to Director of Path and CultureLisa Taypathcultureassistant@gmail.com x 115

Reception Dinah Browndrbrown@shambhala.org x 110

Building CaretakerPeter Clancyhsc.caretaker@gmail.com x130

HALIFAX SHAMBHALA CENTRE STAFF & VOLUNTEERS

Kalapa Ikebana GroupContact:

June CrowLiza Matthews

Open Volunteer Positions:• Families & Youth Coordinator• Outreach Coordinator• Volunteer Mentor• Audio/Recording Coordinator• Culture & Decorum• Hospitality

If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact Michelle Munro at hscdirector15@gmail.com

Halifax ShastrisMary Campbell & Tom Bell

Atlantic Regional ShastrisAlice Haspray, Christine Sloan, Veit Weber

Societal Health & WellbeingContact: Jacquie Bell or Tara Nauss

Feast Coordinator Frederic Villemurefrederic.villemure11@gmail.com

Shrine KeepersDewi Roberts and Sandra Selva

Membership Coordinatormembership@shambhala.org

Daily Sitting CoordinatorRobert Halpern

Chair, Dekyong CouncilMimi McLorie

Regimental Commander, Gesar ArmJoseph Pratt

Building SecurityPam Johnson

WebsiteChris MorelRickey Pannel

Generosity Policy

The Halifax Shambhala Centre is a non-profit organization supported by program fees, donations and the energy of many volunteers. While our programs have suggested fees needed to support the Centre, if

that is an obstacle, you may pay as much as you are able to pay.

There are many opportunities for volunteers to help make our activities, programs and resources available to the community. See http://halifax.shambhala.org/get-involved/volunteering-how-to-help/

on the Halifax Shambhala Centre homepage.

No-Scent PolicyThe Halifax Shambhala Centre is scent-free. Please refrain from wearing scented products.